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The Hummingbird Bakery: Cake Days - Recipes to make every day special
The bestselling, hugely popular Hummingbird Bakery is back with a wonderful new collection of easy and delicious cupcakes, layer cakes, pies and cookies to suit all occasions in this beautiful book. The Hummingbird Bakery has brought their mouth-watering yet easy-to-make cupcakes to kitchens everywhere and this time they show readers how to bake delicious cakes and other sweet delights for those days of the year that are just meant for indulgence - such as birthdays, Easter, Valentine's and Christmas - as well as those times when you just deserve a little treat. This beautifully designed, lavishly photographed book takes you through the year to offer simple baking recipes suited to your favourite seasonal events or celebrations, plus inspired recipes that will encourage you into the kitchen even if there is no special occasion! 'Cake Recipes to Make Everyday Special' not only includes the Hummingbird favourites that so many people have come to love, but many brand new ideas such as cocktail and fizzy pop cupcakes, flower-infused cupcakes and even coffee- and tea-flavoured cupcakes. Whether you fancy a classic Red Velvet, want to enjoy an Earl Grey cupcake with your cup of tea, or bake Lemonade cupcakes for a party, the Hummingbird Bakers will how you how easy it is to make fun and delicious cakes. In addition readers will find the Hummingbird's new whoopie pies, easy tray bakes, classic layer cakes, fruit pies and plenty of scrumptious cookies. With a photograph for every recipe, plus tips and friendly advice, The Hummingbird Bakery's new cookbook is an essential and enjoyable addition to every kitchen.
255 pages, Hardcover
First published March 1, 2011
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About the author
Tarek Malouf
29 books16 followersTarek Malouf was born in London and studied at London and Los Angeles universities, where he discovered American desserts. After working for ABC News in the UK and enjoying American desserts on trips to the USA, he decided to set up The Hummingbird Bakery on Portobello Road. The Bakery's home-cooked cupcakes, pies, brownies and other high-quality American desserts were a huge success and the Bakery now has branches in South Kensington and Soho. Visit the website at .
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January 12, 2017
Fantastic baking book as always.
I'm yet to try out the recipies but there are some fantastic ones inside.
Each recipie is easy to follow and each chapter has been grouped into relevant sections ie, Valentines day, Christmas, etc... which makes it easy to find something exciting and new to bake.
The back of the book gives helpful hints and tips and a stockist of where to purchase ingredients and equipment needed. Ie, coke syrup which you can easily get using soda stream syrups.
Each page is illustrated to help you see what your aiming for.
This is my second Hummingbird baking book and the recipies are always reliable and accurate.
Highly recommend for all skills of bakers.
This is an American themed baking book, but this does not effect the recipies as they are all in UK metric.
Hummingbird Bakery has a shop in London so they are sharing their much loved bakes with the readers.
Have fun and enjoy delicious bakes.
I'm yet to try out the recipies but there are some fantastic ones inside.
Each recipie is easy to follow and each chapter has been grouped into relevant sections ie, Valentines day, Christmas, etc... which makes it easy to find something exciting and new to bake.
The back of the book gives helpful hints and tips and a stockist of where to purchase ingredients and equipment needed. Ie, coke syrup which you can easily get using soda stream syrups.
Each page is illustrated to help you see what your aiming for.
This is my second Hummingbird baking book and the recipies are always reliable and accurate.
Highly recommend for all skills of bakers.
This is an American themed baking book, but this does not effect the recipies as they are all in UK metric.
Hummingbird Bakery has a shop in London so they are sharing their much loved bakes with the readers.
Have fun and enjoy delicious bakes.
June 29, 2012
Love Love LOVE the tiramisu cupcakes - they're so light and fluffy - you can add or subtract as much alcohol as you want to add to the cream filling, be as coffee-ish as you like - I love coffee, but have an aversion to most "coffee flavoured" food stuffs - I LOVE THEM!!!!! I like to add Baileys on account of not having Kahlua, but hey, anything goes!
The recipes almost always work out as it says on the page, I've never had a problem with any of them. Highly recommend this and the first book Y.U.M
The recipes almost always work out as it says on the page, I've never had a problem with any of them. Highly recommend this and the first book Y.U.M
September 11, 2013
I am one of those people who read recipes like they're some delightful prose or poetry. And why not? They are indeed. This one was such a joy. The recipes are written so precisely, describing every little thing thou have to do to the utmost tee. If you read the recipe once or twice before starting, its almost certain you can't go wrong. I tried the cardamom loaf and it was lovely!
May 8, 2012
This book is presented absolutely beautifully: the cover is stunning, all of the photography is absolutely beautiful, and the layout of every recipe is simple and easy to follow.
The recipes look absolutely phenomenal, the kind of book where I want to bake everything at least once.
The recipes look absolutely phenomenal, the kind of book where I want to bake everything at least once.
November 5, 2012
Spent a rainy afternoon making the strawberry daiquiri cupcakes and lemon cranberry cupcakes. Delicious! Very easy to follow instructions and beautiful photos. This is my go-to book for baking.
May 30, 2017
I still use this to this year! Don't bake much (yay for pre-wedding diet)
May 10, 2024
Another great hummingbird bakery cookbook. The recipes are easy to make and there are various pictures of the different yummy recipes. The only thing that would help is if the measurements were also listed in cup and tablespoon quantities. Can't wait for the next book.
January 6, 2018
One of my favorite cook book
January 3, 2025
Amazing recipes, simple to follow and my god do they taste darn good!
June 21, 2024
nice selection of recipes.
May 31, 2017
This is one of my all time favourite baking books. The vanilla cupcakes from here taste heavenly, so light and tasty!
January 8, 2013
A beautiful and jam packed recipe book by the famous Hummingbird Cafe. It holds an array of tantalising American baked treats. As a book, it is beautiful and bright with thick pages and generous full length photographs of the completed items. The recipes are simple with easy to follow instructions. On the most part the recipes do not call for bizarre/obscure ingredients that are hard to track down (find that some cookery books are guilty of that). The hints and tips section at the end of the book is very good, especially for someone who is just getting into baking.
The book is split into nine sections. This is a nice touch as it allows you to bake for the season/specific occasion. The sections are as follows:- Valentines Day, Spring Weekend Bakes, Mother & Father's Day, Easter, Summer Afternoon Tea, Birthdays and Celebrations, Rainy Day Treats, Halloween and Bonfire Night and Christmas. My favourite is the rainy days one. As I live in Scotland there are far too many rainy days, what is better to do on one of those than bake! The recipes there, tend to be lovely warming ones, which is right up my street. I received this book as a gift and is a fantastic recipe book which I definitely recommend. It has something for everyone including healthier bakes, very quirky ideas and combinations (fancy some coca cola cupcakes?!), loafs, bars, whole cakes and also small cakes. A taste of the USA in your very own kitchen.
Recipe Highlights-
Cherry Cupcakes, Gingerbread Muffins,Walnut and Honey Loaf, Spiced Apple Cake with Brown Sugar Frosting, Pistachio Whoopie Pies and Chocolate Fondant Cupcakes
The book is split into nine sections. This is a nice touch as it allows you to bake for the season/specific occasion. The sections are as follows:- Valentines Day, Spring Weekend Bakes, Mother & Father's Day, Easter, Summer Afternoon Tea, Birthdays and Celebrations, Rainy Day Treats, Halloween and Bonfire Night and Christmas. My favourite is the rainy days one. As I live in Scotland there are far too many rainy days, what is better to do on one of those than bake! The recipes there, tend to be lovely warming ones, which is right up my street. I received this book as a gift and is a fantastic recipe book which I definitely recommend. It has something for everyone including healthier bakes, very quirky ideas and combinations (fancy some coca cola cupcakes?!), loafs, bars, whole cakes and also small cakes. A taste of the USA in your very own kitchen.
Recipe Highlights-
Cherry Cupcakes, Gingerbread Muffins,Walnut and Honey Loaf, Spiced Apple Cake with Brown Sugar Frosting, Pistachio Whoopie Pies and Chocolate Fondant Cupcakes
July 30, 2017
Everything I learned in baking, I learned it from this book.
December 20, 2019
Cada cierto tiempo vuelvo a mirar este libro de recetas porque tiene unas propuestas estupendas. Tiene recetas de todo tipo pero especialmente magdalenas, tiene también algunas tartas y otro tipo de pasteles. Me gusta especialmente porque las recetas son relativamente sencillas, y todos los ingredientes los pueden encontrar en un supermercado normal, pese a lo que puede parecer hay libro de recetas de dulces que son hermosos pero imposibles de replicar porque se basan en productos que no venden en España, suele pasar con libros de Estados Unidos donde hay un montón de productos elaborados (siropes, y demás) que no pueden comprar en una tienda de barrio.
De entre todas las recetas me quedo con las que tienen canela, he realizando alguna en casa y ha salido muy bien. Muy recomendable.
De entre todas las recetas me quedo con las que tienen canela, he realizando alguna en casa y ha salido muy bien. Muy recomendable.
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January 23, 2013‘Tis the season to be greedy’ ... so don your festive apron and have a go at baking some treats from the Hummingbird Cake Days cookbook this Christmas.
This baking bible is adorned with impossibly beautiful and mouth-watering images of various calorific delights. The chapters are conveniently divided into occasions instead of specific cakes, such as Valentine’s Day; Spring Weekend Bakes; Mother’s and Father’s Day; Birthdays and Celebrations and Rainy Day Treats to name a few. I love this – it makes searching for a recipe for a special occasion so much easier and for a lazy amateur baker such as myself, it’s perfect!...
This baking bible is adorned with impossibly beautiful and mouth-watering images of various calorific delights. The chapters are conveniently divided into occasions instead of specific cakes, such as Valentine’s Day; Spring Weekend Bakes; Mother’s and Father’s Day; Birthdays and Celebrations and Rainy Day Treats to name a few. I love this – it makes searching for a recipe for a special occasion so much easier and for a lazy amateur baker such as myself, it’s perfect!...
June 20, 2017
Good recipes. Nice ideas of taste combinations, but I found that in each and every recipe way too much sugar! No problem with reducing it even by 50 g without compromising on the overall result :) Some recipes are just variations of the previous ones in the book, so if you were to look at the book overall - you would discover that there are maybe 4-5 main recipes only and the rest is just "variation" of them.
April 26, 2014
God knows how, but somehow I managed to leave this in the charity shop. Just as well really, because there was barely two or three recipes in the entire book that didn't sound amazing... these things are not good for the waistline! But if they taste anything like they sound, they'll be absolutely to die for.
May 2, 2015
There are some lovely and intriguing recipe's in this book, I enjoy how to cookbook is split up into seasonal/event sections. It's all easy to follow, but the major problem I have with Hummingbird is the sheer amount of sugar they use. So beware of the sugar overload in some recipes (particularly anything with frosting).
July 1, 2011
I wouldn't normally pass comments on cookery books but this book is so lush! Beautiful photographs, inspirational recipes and nothing that seems too taxing for a novice cook like myself. Just off to the supermarket now to buy the ingredients for rose muffins and lemon and thyme loaf.
May 13, 2014
I absolutely adored the recipes in this book. I did however learn to use them more as guidelines and to adjust each one accordingly. My favourite recipe was the Guinness cake, I definitely recommend giving it a go.
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September 13, 2017the cupcake revolution is here
August 28, 2012
salivamos só de olhar as fotos!!! ideal para gulosos armados em chefs!
September 6, 2012
This is my baking bible!! Love the recipes in here, and they never fail. Amazing. :D
February 21, 2013
Seriously never get tired of the cakes in this one.
YUM! Everyone with the tiniest baker inside should own this.
YUM! Everyone with the tiniest baker inside should own this.
January 14, 2014
Some fantastic recipes in this book and I tend to go back to it ever now and again
December 15, 2020
This is the best recipe book i have used to date. Unusual and indulgent recipes for many many occasions.
January 16, 2016
Absolute favourite baking book!! Recipes are easy to follow and a guaranteed success. Love the mojito cupcakes!
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